Việt Nam News

Việt Nam has to pay more attention to improve quality of its vocational training system to efficiently promote labourers’ skills, PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc stated at 'Skilling up Việt Nam' – the country’s largest-ever forum on vocational training in Hà Nội on Saturday.

The project for electronic non-stop toll collection (ETC) at all BOT (build-operate-transfer) booths was launched in November 2014 with total investment of more than VNĐ2 trillion (US$87.6 million).

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc attended the great national unity festival held in Điện Biên Ward of Hà Nội’s Ba Đình District on Sunday on the occasion of the 89th founding anniversary of Việt Nam Fatherland Front (November 18).

A court in the central city of Đà Nẵng on Friday ruled in favour of workers whose South Korean employer failed to pay their salaries or social insurance duties for over a year.

A speech to text software with accuracy of up to 93.6 per cent was honoured yesterday as the winner of Vietnamese Talent Awards 2019’s information technology (IT) category.

Education and training are vital to the socio-economic development of countries, including Việt Nam, Văn Kim Hoàng Hà, vice dean of the faculty of oriental studies at the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, told a conference in HCM City yesterday.

 In the first nine months of this year, the sex ratio at birth in Ha Noi stood at 110.5 boys to 100 girls, a decrease from 2018 when it was 113.5:100.

Lê Văn Sỹ, a health technician at a hospital in central Quảng Bình Province, has been dedicated to giving blood for years.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau provides vocational training to its rural population to meet the labour market demand and help provide steady livelihoods.

Many pepper farmers in the southeastern province of Bình Phước have switched to other crops to improve their income amid declining pepper prices and disease outbreaks.

The entire Đà Nẵng – Quảng Ngãi Expressway opened to traffic on September 2 last year.

Bùi Văn Dương, deputy director general of the Department of Construction, talks to Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper about serious encroachments made by some construction projects at historic sites and parks in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang

A programme on asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management has gained remarkable results in reducing the number of hospitalisation rate of patient with asthma and COPD in Hải Phòng City.

The People’s Court of HCM City started a trial on Friday against Hứa Thị Phấn, a former senior advisor to the board of directors of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank), now Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB), for “abusing trust to appropriate property” under article 175 of the 2015 Penal Code.

Twelve government officials have been jailed for embezzling funds and failing in their duties.

The central province of Quảng Nam has approved a detailed plan for the International Education City-Nam Hội An project on 60ha in coastal Thăng Bình district with total investment of VNĐ1.5 trillion (US$66.4 million).

The HCM City Customs Department plans to reduce the number of and shorten the time for customs procedures at Cát Lái Port in District 2 to reduce congestion.

Plans have been proposed to increase tax on tobacco, ban electronic vapes and tighten online advertising of cigarettes.